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On this day (Dec 1) in 1955, she refused to give up her seat to a white man on the bus she was riding. Rosa Parks' arrest and subsequent trial in Montgomery, Alabama and the 381 day successful Montgomery Bus boycott calling to end bus segregation in recognition of that trial introduced many people to the young reverend Martin Luther King Jr. and the beginning of the modern Civil Rights movement. http://history1900s.about.com/od/1950s/qt/RosaParks.htm

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20 Photographs Depicting British Children During the Blitz of World War II

The London Blitz was a series of bombing attacks on Britain carried out by the Nazi Luftwaffe during World War II. The Luftwaffe targeted towns and cities, prioritizing the decimation of London. The Battle of Britain was a series of aerial encounters between the Royal Air Force (RAF) and the…

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